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Nancy Rebecca Walker James
18 Jan 1848 – 14 Feb 1926
| Birth | 18 Jan 1848 |
| Death | 14 Feb 1926 |
| Cemetery | Preston Hill Cemetery Woods County , Oklahoma , USA |
| Added by | Vicki Moore-Carberry on 03 Apr 2012 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88040355 |
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published in the Alva Weekly Record (Alva, Oklahoma), 18 Feb 1926, page 12 - Nancy Rebecca Walker, daughter of Elisha and Martha Ann Walker, was born January 18, 1848, at Marrowbone, Moultrie County, Illinois and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs H H Pryor, in Alva, Oklahoma, February 14, 1926, after in illness of about five weeks duration. She was married to Willis James on February 20th, 1870. In 1877 they moved with their family to Kansas and in 1898 they located on a farm in the Farry neighborhood, where have since resided. The husband and nine children survive; Mrs H H Pryor, Alva; Elvin E James, Farry, Oklahoma; Mrs John Reed, Farry; Mrs Cass Mapes, Farry; Mrs L C Thomas, Penokee, Kansas; Mrs H G Walker, Sawyer, Kansas; Otho James, Alva; and Edwin James, Farry, Oklahoma. Besides immediate family she is survived by one brother, Oliver Walker, Hardtner, Kansas and two half brothers, C L Walker, Levi, Arkansas; G A Walker, Fresno, California; and two half sisters, Mrs G A Travis, Eldorado Springs, Mo.; and Mrs I P Reynolds, of Florida, and twenty three grand-children and two great grand-children. At the age of fourteen, Mrs James joined the Cumberland Presbyterian church and remained a faithful worker in that faith until 1877, when she united with the United Brethren church, and lived a consistent Christian life until her death. She was an earnest worker in her church wherever she lived and did much during the early days to make her community an excellent place for rearing her children. Mrs James was instrumental in getting the Farry post office established and was the first postmaster at that place. She was an ideal mother and companion and during the early years of the settling up of the Cherokee Strip, she with the hundreds of other mothers endured the hardships and privations without a murmur and was ever ready and willing to come to the aid of a friend or neighbor whom she could serve. A kind and sympathetic mother and helpful companion, her memory will ever be cherished by the loved ones left to mourn. Funeral services were conducted by Rev Tripp of the U. B. church at the H H Pryor home in this city Monday morning at 11:30. The body was then taken to the old home at Farry, where Rev Tripp again preached the funeral discourse to her many friends and neighbors with whom she had lived and associated with so long. Burial took place in the Preston Hill cemetery near Farry.
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- John Oliver Walker 1846–1937 FaG
- Enoch Collins Walker 1849–1905 FaG
- Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" Walker Lansden 1851–1890 FaG
- Sarah Malinda Walker 1852–1854 FaG
- William Elias Walker 1854–1924 FaG
- Cordelia Ellen Walker Travis 1857–1947 FaG
- Christopher Lincoln Walker 1858–1950 FaG
- Elisha Addison Walker 1860–1875 FaG
- Robert Anderson Walker 1861–1915 FaG
- Barbra Emma Walker 1863–1866 FaG
- George Andrew Walker 1864–1935 FaG
- Malinda Emmaline Walker Long 1866–1945 FaG
- Effa Ann Walker 1872–1873 FaG
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